Man 1st Day At Job Ends With Fatal False Step

KISSIMMEE — A construction worker was killed on his first day on the job Wednesday when he fell through the sheet metal roof of a plastics plant and dropped 26 feet to a concrete floor.

Patrick Harned, 53, was one of 10 men working on the roof of the half-built United Foam Plastics plant on Partin Settlement Road. Witnesses said he stepped onto a strip of sheet metal that had not been fastened to steel rafters.